Hi all before I make the award announcement in just a bit I wanted to thank several people before things got wild and crazy.
First off--I got the idea to do something a bit different for the winners this year. I approached
reallycorking and
kath_ballantyne to do some original artwork for the winner banners. They graciously agreed and the artwork is just beautiful. I so appreciate their hard work getting these done and I can not thank them enough. The awards are even more special this year because of them. Be sure to leave them a note letting them know how beautiful the artwork is!
Second-Thank you to
simons_flower and
oncelikeshari for checking journals and validating votes. Their help was invaluable and it made my job so much easier in validating everything.
And finally last but not least
rickey_a who made all the winner banners. She devoted loads of time to this project and a great deal of creativity. She put up with my inability to be online and available as much as I would have liked to have been. Be sure to comment and let her know what a great job she did.
As I said I will be announcing the winners probably sometime between 830 and 9 pm EST. I will be sending out letters to the authors and artists. Those of you who do win an award if you could please hold off posting your banners until the actual winner announcement goes up I would appreciate it!
Thanks to everyone who nominated and voted!